BY G. W. KIRKALDY. 353 



22. Leptocorisa acuta (Thunberg) Stal, 1873, op. cit. xi., 86. 

 Rewa (February, March and November; Muir; and Knowles, 



No. 140). Also from Australia and the entire Oriental Region. 



The fourth segment of the antennae is very distinctly longer 

 than the first. 



23. Noliphus insularis Stal, 1873, op. cit. xi., 87. 

 ci Fi ji » 



24. Leptocoris insularis, sp.nov. 



Head brownish-red, with a wide median blackish suffusion. 

 Eyes and ocelli red. Labium, antennae and legs (red coxae 

 excepted) black. Pronotum purplish-brown, the two impressed 

 areas and the posterior half (more or less suffusedly) blackish. 

 Tegmina purplish-brown, more or less darkened locally. Mem- 

 brane metallic green, the basal margin narrowly peacock-blue. 

 Sterna more or less reddish-brown; pleura greyish, lateral margins 

 (and of the sternites) irregularly obscure red-brown, irregularly 

 smudged with fuscous. Last sternite irregularly marked with 

 red, black and orange-yellow. Antennae with first segment 

 extending well beyond apex of head, fourth segment distinctly 

 longer than the second, which is a little longer than the third. 

 Labium extending well behind the hind coxae. Pronotum much 

 as in L. augur. 



<£. Last sternite roundly emarginate medially, postero-lateral 

 angles rounded. 



Length 18 mill. 



Rewa (March; Muir). 



25. Riptortus annulicornis (Boisduval), Stal, I.e. 



Rewa (March; Muir). Also from Papua, Yanikoro and the 

 Philippines, 



26. R. SP.1 



Rewa (March; Muir); Lautoka (Knowles, No.352), on leaves 

 of " Mauritius-bean " (Mucuna alropurpurect). 



This is almost certainly an introduced species, which I have 

 not as yet been able to identify with certainty. 

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